Well. For some reason. When i was making a computer design, my Photoshop started to lag very bad. SO i clicked the X and the end now thing popped up. As usual, I clicked end now. Afterwards, everything on my comp started lagging, like msn and aim. I had to click end now for it. ANd it starts to dissapear from my comp.But the programs were still on the program bar thing (the start bar). Afterwards it lagged to much so i clicked restart button on my cpu. Then when I restarted and everything started to load so slow. THe msn, aim, mccaffe wouldnt load. So i tried to log on to the other users on my comp. When i opened my other user, everything loaded fine. But when i shutted down i tried to go back into my account but it was still the same. Another thing. My cd-rom started to load cds very very slow. It use to take like 3 seconds to load my Starcraft CD. But now, when i tired, it took about 11 minutes to load. ALso, the icon use to be red but it turned black on my computer. Also my other game America's Army, the logo was also black when i looked at it in the c drive. And the game wouldnt work either. This is making me very frustrated. Does anyone know how to fix this problem. All help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks in advance.


OS: Windows XP

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Two separate problems are likely: a per-user Explorer/profile corruption causing the slow, disappearing windows and broken icons, and a separate optical-drive/driver fallback causing the CD to read very slowly. As suggested, check what is using CPU and background services; because reports another account works normally, start with user-profile and Explorer fixes first, then tackle the CD/DVD issue.

Quick, prioritized checks you can follow now:

  • Boot into Safe Mode and see if the affected account behaves the same. If Safe Mode is fine, suspect shell extensions or corrupted profile settings.
  • Create a new administrator account and log into it. If that account is clean, migrate documents and favorites rather than trying to repair a badly corrupted profile.
  • Check Event Viewer (Application/System) for explorer.exe or shell errors. Kill and restart explorer.exe (Task Manager) to test without rebooting.
  • Run sfc /scannow from an elevated command prompt and schedule chkdsk /f /r at next reboot to repair file-system and system-file corruption.

Optical drive troubleshooting (fast tests first):

  • In Device Manager open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers -> Primary/Secondary IDE Channel -> Properties -> Advanced Settings and ensure Transfer Mode is set to DMA if available. If the channel shows PIO Only, uninstall the channel and reboot so Windows redetects it.
  • Check the drive’s cable (use an 80-conductor cable for UDMA-capable drives) and try several known-good discs.
  • If Windows still has problems accessing the drive, back up the registry and remove any UpperFilters/LowerFilters values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} — this is a common XP fix for CD/DVD issues.

Other useful steps: do a clean boot with msconfig to isolate startup items, run an on-demand anti-malware scan (Malwarebytes), temporarily disable AV for testing, and rebuild the icon cache (delete IconCache.db in the user’s Local Settings\Application Data and restart Explorer). Back up important data before major repairs or registry edits.

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What are you using for anti virus...spyware, adware etc...
Check to see what is using up your cpu time...

Is this pc on broadband internet?

I have mccafee anti virus. I believe i have spyware blaster and lavasoft ad-aware on at all times. And also i am using high speed internet, which is broadband.

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